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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

Seneca the Younger

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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
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
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful

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