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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

Seneca the Younger

If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Judge Persuade Sin
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Wise
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Death Philosophical
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hateful
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Add Another Day Time
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Evil Real Suffering
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
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science

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