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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Seneca the Younger

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
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
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person

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