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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.

Seneca the Younger

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
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
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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Admire Guide Speak
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
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
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind

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