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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

Seneca the Younger

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Element Madness Talent
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
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
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Dying Wonder
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Acknowledge Inspirational Thank

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