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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

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
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
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
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True

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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