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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

Seneca the Younger

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.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
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
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
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
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 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

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