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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

Seneca the Younger

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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
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
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
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
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
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
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Money Philosophical Slavery
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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