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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

Seneca the Younger

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational

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