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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.

Seneca the Younger

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
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
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Money Philosophical Slavery

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