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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

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
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
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
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
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Honor Justice Loss

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

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