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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

Seneca the Younger

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
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
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
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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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Greater Progress

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