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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

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Inspirational Success Tattoo
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
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
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
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
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
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken

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

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