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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.

Seneca the Younger

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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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