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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

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life

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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