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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Seneca the Younger

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
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
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
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
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
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
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return

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