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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

Seneca the Younger

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Director Teacher Vice
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
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
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
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
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
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
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Destiny Fate Inspirational

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

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