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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

Seneca the Younger

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Liberal Philosophical Trust
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Motto Nature Stoic
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Motivational
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Amendment Arms Bearing Gun

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