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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.

Seneca the Younger

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Inspirational Success Tattoo
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Wise
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
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
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return

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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