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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

Seneca the Younger

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
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
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
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
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

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