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Luck never made a man wise.

Seneca the Younger

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
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
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
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
Luck never made a man wise.
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