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The worse a person is the less he feels it.

Seneca the Younger

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
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
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
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
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
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
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
[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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Demand Equal Wicked
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust

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