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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

Seneca the Younger

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Master Slave Tyranny
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
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
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
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 believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hear More Nobody Repeat

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

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