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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

Seneca the Younger

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
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
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
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
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done

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