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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Seneca the Younger

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Happiness Inspirational Laughter
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue

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