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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.

Seneca the Younger

There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
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
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
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
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law

To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.

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