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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

Seneca the Younger

To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Money Philosophical Slavery
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

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