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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

Seneca the Younger

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
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
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
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
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
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life

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