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Be harsh with yourself at times.

Seneca the Younger

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
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
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
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
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
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
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

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