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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

Seneca the Younger

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Know Modesty Return
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
He who has great power should use it lightly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Philosophical Vision
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
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
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophy Plato Science

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

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