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

Seneca the Younger

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
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
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
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational

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