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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Seneca the Younger

The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
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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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
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

True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

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