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To govern was to serve, not to rule.

Seneca the Younger

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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
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
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
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
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
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
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves

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