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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

Seneca the Younger

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Money Philosophical Slavery
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
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
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success

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