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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.

Seneca the Younger

Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Drunkenness People Vices
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Leisure Vice
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Men Mind
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Forward Life Look Past
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Invites Refusal Request

Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.

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