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

Seneca the Younger

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness

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

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