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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

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
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier
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
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request

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