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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

Seneca the Younger

It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

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