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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

Seneca the Younger

If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
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
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well

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