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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca the Younger

One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Dying Wonder
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
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
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.
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Affection Coal Squares
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
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
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World

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