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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.

Seneca the Younger

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming

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