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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

Seneca the Younger

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
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

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