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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Seneca the Younger

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
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.
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Hand Men Wise
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
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
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People

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