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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

Seneca the Younger

He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Poison Sweet
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
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
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
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
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom

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