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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.

Seneca the Younger

One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Dying Wonder
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily

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