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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

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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open

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