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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

Seneca the Younger

There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion History People Person
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 has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
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?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Assuming Honor Men
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
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
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greed Luxury Madness Peace
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Brother Mind Wicked

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