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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

Seneca the Younger

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
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.
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Action Destination Honor
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
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
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
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
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light

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