There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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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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