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To govern was to serve, not to rule.

Seneca the Younger

No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
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
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
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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