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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

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
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.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
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
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
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
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful

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