There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
SENECA THE YOUNGERBut when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Every journey has an end.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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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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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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