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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

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
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
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
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
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
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Happiness Inspirational Laughter
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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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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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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