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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.

Seneca the Younger

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
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
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind

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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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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