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Seneca the Younger

Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth

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