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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.

Seneca the Younger

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
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
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 person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
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
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
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 mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Laughter

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