Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAll 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Every journey has an end.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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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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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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