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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Seneca the Younger

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Love Rule
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

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