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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

Seneca the Younger

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Knowledge Learning Love
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fear Light Philosophical
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Intelligence Mediocrity
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
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

First Give Prudence Science

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