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

Seneca the Younger

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Humble Men Poverty
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ambition Know Mind
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conquer Kindness Recognise
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Brother Mind Wicked
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Wisdom Wise
If you judge, investigate.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Judge Philosophical Umpire
Men learn while they teach.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Education Inspirational Teacher
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Care Dumb Light
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Action Destination Honor
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Intelligence Mediocrity
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Example Luxury Mischief People
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Idea Men Work Write
The part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Part Really Short
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Able Mind Peace Terror

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

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