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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

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bear Mind Money Wealth
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Money Philosophical Slavery
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
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Failure Happiness
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Numbers Peril Slavery
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hatred Men Revenge
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Relaxation Stronger
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Stores Use
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Atheist Religious Wise
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Intelligence Mediocrity
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful
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?”
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dresses Fear Number
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy Themselves

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

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