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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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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

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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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