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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

Seneca the Younger

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hand Men Wise
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.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
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
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical

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