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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

Seneca the Younger

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
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
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
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
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 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
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
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
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence

The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

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