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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.

Seneca the Younger

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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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