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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

Seneca the Younger

He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
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
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Happiness Inspirational Laughter
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
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
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
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
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke

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