It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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People do not care how nobly they live, only how long, despite the fact that it is within everyone's reach to live nobly, but within no one's reach to live long.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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