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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Seneca the Younger

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
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
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
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People

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