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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

Seneca the Younger

What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
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
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
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
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
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
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

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