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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

Seneca the Younger

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
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
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
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
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation

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