It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHow much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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