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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Seneca the Younger

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
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
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
Men learn while they teach.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
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
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
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

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