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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

Seneca the Younger

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
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
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
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
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

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