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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

Seneca the Younger

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
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.
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Evil Real Suffering
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity

It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

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