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He who has great power should use it lightly.

Seneca the Younger

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dresses Fear Number
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
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
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
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
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
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical

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