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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

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
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature

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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