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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

Seneca the Younger

Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
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
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
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
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

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