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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

Seneca the Younger

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
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
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
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
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
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
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

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