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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

Seneca the Younger

He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
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
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality

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