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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Seneca the Younger

His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
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
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
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
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Drink Insanity
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

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