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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.

Seneca the Younger

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
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.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
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?”
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Dresses Fear Number
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet

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