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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

Seneca the Younger

The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Active Employment Vice
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
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
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Happiness Life
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
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
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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Affection Coal Squares
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Remember Tolerance
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Half More Trouble
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

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