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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

Seneca the Younger

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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
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
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic

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