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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.

Seneca the Younger

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
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
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
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
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
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

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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