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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

Seneca the Younger

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
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
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
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
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious

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