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Don’t stumble over something behind you.

Seneca the Younger

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
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
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
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
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy

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