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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

Seneca the Younger

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Atheist Religious Wise
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
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
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
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
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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