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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

His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
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
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
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
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
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
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

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