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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.

Seneca the Younger

How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
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
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
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
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
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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Greatness Men Piece
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
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
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
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
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
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

Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.

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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.

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