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

Seneca the Younger

There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
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?
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Assuming Honor Men
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Happiness Inspirational Laughter
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other

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

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