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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

Seneca the Younger

But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World

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