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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.

Seneca the Younger

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Number Slavery
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
Men learn while they teach.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Element Madness Talent
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Speech View

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