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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Seneca the Younger

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law People Retirement
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
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
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
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
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
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
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way

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