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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
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise

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