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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

Seneca the Younger

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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
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
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Inspirational Success Tattoo
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Money Philosophical Slavery
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
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
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science

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