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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca the Younger

Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Leisure Praying
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

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