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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

Seneca the Younger

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
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
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
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

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