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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last. ↗

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

#branch #clear #devote #entirely #exclusively

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#great #great genius #madness #some #touch

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

#dare #difficult #things #venture

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

#because #does #harbor #know #making

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

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#find #great #hand #happy #happy life

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#apprehension #harm #more #often #reality

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#live #must #wish #you #yourself

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense. ↗