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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.

Seneca the Younger

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
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
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
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment

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