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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

Seneca the Younger

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
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
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
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 Wise
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
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

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