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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca the Younger

Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Brother Mind Wicked
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cures Fail Reason
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Arches Fall Inspiration
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Outcome War
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Men Unhappy
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
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
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Successful Temerity Virtue
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Innocence Men Mind
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Delight Help Others Support
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Book Mind Together
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Brave Men
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Birthday End Eternity Fear
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
He who is brave is free.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bravery Freedom Reality
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Good Innocence Law

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