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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.

Seneca the Younger

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.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
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
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
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
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
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
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal

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