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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

Seneca the Younger

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
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
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
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
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

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