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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

Seneca the Younger

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
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 has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational

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