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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

Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
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
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring

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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