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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Seneca the Younger

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

Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
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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Cultivation Culture May Mind
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Consistency Deed
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Secret Tedious Truth
Injustice never rules forever.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Forever Injustice Justice
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Educational Schoolroom Taught
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Genius Madness Mixtures
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Land Travel World
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Brave Joy Laughing True
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admire Guide Speak
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Drink Insanity

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