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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.

Seneca the Younger

Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Blow Thinking
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
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
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Distress Fellow Man

Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.

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