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Who timidly requests invites refusal.

Seneca the Younger

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
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
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
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
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
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

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