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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.

Seneca the Younger

We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political

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