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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Seneca the Younger

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
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
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
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
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
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
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
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
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
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
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
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
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness

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