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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

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
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel

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