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To govern was to serve, not to rule.

Seneca the Younger

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law People Retirement
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
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
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
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
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hateful
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
Life without literary studies is death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Life Literature Study
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
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.
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Hatred Men Revenge

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

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