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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

Seneca the Younger

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Half More Trouble
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
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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Help May Need
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
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
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
Men learn while they teach.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

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