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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

Seneca the Younger

Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
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
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
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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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

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