Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt 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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If you judge, investigate.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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