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There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ↗

#great #great genius #madness #some #touch

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#chronic #console #finds #fresh #grief

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display? ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#display #feel #good #i #real

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#hostility #much #rule #too #too much

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#dash #force #foreign #grow #men

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. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#called #cringe #defiance #evil #evils

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#acquisition #changes #does #end #many

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#mind #speech #whenever

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#fall #like #ruins #smash #themselves

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ↗