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Where fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca the Younger

Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Inspirational Success Tattoo

Where fear is, happiness is not.

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