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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

Seneca the Younger

To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Love Rule
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.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
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
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
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time

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