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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

Seneca the Younger

Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
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
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility

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