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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

Seneca the Younger

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Believe Birthday Happiness
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Element Madness Talent
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Epileptic Precaution Regard
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bestnow Kindness Recieve
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Action Destination Honor
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cures Fail Reason
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beneficial Delightful Read
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Advice Body Disease
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Delight Difficulty Remind
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Gratitude Profit Virtue
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excellence Philosophical Quality
While crime is punished it yet increases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Increase Prison
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessing Death Mean

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