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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

Seneca the Younger

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
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
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
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
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
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex

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