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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

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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
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
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
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Wise
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
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
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught

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