It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
SENECAAll cruelty springs from weakness.
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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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Find a path or make one.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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As was his language so was his life.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.
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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
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