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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.

Seneca the Younger

To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Love Rule
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
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Life Money
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admire Praise Provoking
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Dying Wonder
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cultivation Culture May Mind

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