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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

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
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain

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

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