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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

How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Darkness Mind Prosperity
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Inspirational Other Positive
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fate Guilt Guilty
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Piece
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Length Quiet Weary
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Shortness Waste
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Men Nature Return
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desirable People Poor
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law People Retirement
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Judge Persuade Sin
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Brave Men
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Steer Talk Vessel
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Action Destination Honor
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Men World
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
The sun shines even on the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Evil Shine Wicked

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

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