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If you wish to be loved, love.

Seneca the Younger

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
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
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People

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