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Who timidly requests invites refusal.

Seneca the Younger

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
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
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
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
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
[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
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice

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