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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

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Idea Men Work Write
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Example Luxury Mischief People
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
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
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
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Master Slave Tyranny
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice

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

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