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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

Seneca the Younger

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
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
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing

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