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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

Seneca the Younger

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
Men learn while they teach.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
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
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

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