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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca the Younger

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heart Think View
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
It 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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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dresses Fear Number
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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