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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

Seneca the Younger

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
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
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy

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