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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.

Seneca the Younger

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Love Rule
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessed Blessing Confidence
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conclusion Justice May Side
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things

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