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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.

Seneca the Younger

We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
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

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