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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.

Seneca

Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.
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Age Deep Experience Life Old Proof
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Enjoyment Future Injure Life Pleasure Present
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Business Change Planning Situation
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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Greatness Height Leading Motivational Road Success
It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
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Difficult Easy Example Goodness Lesson People
He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
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Invitation One Liner Refuse Time
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Business Favour Focus Man Sail Wind
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
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Character Hide Lapse Mask Pretense
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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Crave Desire Expectation Man Poor
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
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Courage Dare Difficult Motivational Strength
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.
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Enjoyment Future Happiness Present Satisfaction True
The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
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Blessing Man Satisfaction Wise
The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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God Holy Mind Purity
To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
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Freedom Philosophy Slave True Win
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
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No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.
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