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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Seneca the Younger

Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
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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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
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

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