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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

Seneca the Younger

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

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