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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.

Seneca the Younger

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Active Employment Vice
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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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
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
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
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
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Delight Help Others Support
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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