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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

Seneca the Younger

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
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
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
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
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

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