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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

Seneca the Younger

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
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 Wise
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
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

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