At times we ought to drink even to intoxication, not so as to drown, but merely to dip ourselves in wine, for wine washes away troubles and dislodges them from the depths of the mind and acts as a remedy to sorrow as it does to some diseases. The inventor of wine is called Liber, not from the license which he gives to our tongues but because he liberates the mind from the bondage of cares and emancipates it, animates it and renders it more daring in all that it attempts.
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It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
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From this state also will he flee. If I should attempt to enumerate them one by one, I should not find a single one which could tolerate the wise man or which the wise man could tolerate.
SenecaUntil we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.
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It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver as if it was earthenware is no less great.
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You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.
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It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.
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When a mind is impressionable and has none too firm a hold on what is right, it must be rescued from the crowd: it is so easy for it to go over to the majority.
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Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely different [as fear and hope] are, the two of them march in unison like a prisoner and the escort he is handcuffed to. Fear keeps pace with hope … both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present.
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Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.
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