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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

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hateful
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Medicine Men Search Sick
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
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Humble Men Poverty
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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Give Inspirational Men
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

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