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

Seneca the Younger

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
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
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
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?
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Mind Speech View
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.
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Although Care Long Men
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life

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

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