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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.

Seneca the Younger

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
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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Choices Little Struggle
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
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
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
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

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