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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

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
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
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
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
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
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
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way

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

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