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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

Seneca the Younger

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Genius Madness Mixtures
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
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
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Director Teacher Vice
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Disappointment Office Years
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life

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