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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

Seneca the Younger

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

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