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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.

Seneca the Younger

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
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
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Wise
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit
Life without literary studies is death.
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Death Life Literature Study
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
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
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth

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