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Who timidly requests invites refusal.

Seneca the Younger

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
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.
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Choices Little Struggle
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Laughter
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Remember Suffer Sweet
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
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Distress Fellow Man
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Chance Hatred Wrath
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Joy True Vex

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