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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

Seneca the Younger

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
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
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

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