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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

Seneca the Younger

Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
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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Fate Men Wish
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life

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