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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

Seneca the Younger

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

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