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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

Seneca the Younger

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
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Happiness Inspirational Laughter
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Money Philosophical Slavery
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

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