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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!

Seneca the Younger

Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
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
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life

How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!

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