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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.

Seneca the Younger

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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
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
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
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
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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