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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

Seneca the Younger

Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
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
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
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
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
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science

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