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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

Seneca the Younger

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
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
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
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
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

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