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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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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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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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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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