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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

Seneca the Younger

There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
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
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

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