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All art is but imitation of nature.

Seneca the Younger

The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
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
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
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
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
Life without literary studies is death.
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Death Life Literature Study

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