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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

Seneca the Younger

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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need

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