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

Seneca the Younger

Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
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
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use

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