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The part of life which we really live is short.

Seneca the Younger

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
After death there is nothing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

After Death Life Nothing
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Evil Real Suffering
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Half More Trouble
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Life Wise
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Humble Men Poverty
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ancestry Brag Descent
The part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspiration Life Part Short Success
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
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

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