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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.

Seneca the Younger

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
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
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
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Money Philosophical Slavery
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
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
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
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
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past

Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.

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