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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

Seneca the Younger

To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Love Rule
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
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learner Library Wander
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

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