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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

Seneca the Younger

To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
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
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
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

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