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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

Seneca the Younger

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer

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