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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

Seneca the Younger

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
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
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

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