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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

Seneca the Younger

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
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt

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