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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

Seneca the Younger

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
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
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer

It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

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