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All art is but imitation of nature.

Seneca the Younger

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
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

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