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• I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
  -- Seneca (8 BC) -- On a Happy Life, 2, (L'Estrange's Abstract, Chap, i.)...
• Not lost, but gone before. -- Seneca (8 BC) -- Epistolae, 63, 16
• Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself.
  -- Seneca (8 BC) -- Hercules Furens, i, 1, 84...
• Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. -- Seneca (8 BC) -- De Providentia, 5, 9
• Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. -- Seneca (8 BC) -- Hercules Furens, i, 1, 255
• Whom they have injured they also hate. -- Seneca (8 BC) -- De Ira, ii, 33
• Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.
  There is no great genius without a tincture of madness....
• Man possesses limited intelligence, but alas, unlimited stupidity.
• Let no man presume to give advice to others that has not first given good counsel to himself.
  -- Seneca...