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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Seneca the Younger

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Drink Insanity
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Joy Men
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hear More Nobody Repeat
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Disappointment Office Years
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Love Rule
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Successful Temerity Virtue
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
After death there is nothing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

After Death Life Nothing
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Letter Together
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Men Wise

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

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