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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

Seneca the Younger

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
Men learn while they teach.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
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
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
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
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Success Wisdom
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Inspirational Other Positive

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