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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

Seneca the Younger

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
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
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal

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