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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

Seneca the Younger

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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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