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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

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
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
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 Men Piece
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution

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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