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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

Seneca the Younger

He who has great power should use it lightly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Philosophical Vision
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
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
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
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
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Life Wise

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

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