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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

Seneca the Younger

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
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
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm

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