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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

Seneca the Younger

Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
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

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

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