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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?

Seneca the Younger

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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Knowledge Learning Love
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Inspirational Success Tattoo
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
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
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
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
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Book Mind Together
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Giver Mind

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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