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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

Seneca the Younger

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
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
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation

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