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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Seneca the Younger

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
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
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
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
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
Whatever begins, also ends.
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