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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

He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
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
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
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
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
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
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think

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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