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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Seneca the Younger

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excess Pleasure Repetition
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Disappointment Office Years
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
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Laughter
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
He who has great power should use it lightly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Philosophical Vision
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hatred Men Revenge
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Men Philosophical
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Successful Temerity Virtue

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