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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

Seneca the Younger

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Genius Madness Mixtures
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
He who has great power should use it lightly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Philosophical Vision
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Numbers Peril Slavery
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Giving Hour Life
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Depress Mind Quality
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Good Innocence Law

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