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The expression of truth is simplicity.

Seneca the Younger

That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
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
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
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
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men

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