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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

Seneca the Younger

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
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
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

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