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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.

Seneca the Younger

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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
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
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Money Philosophical Slavery
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
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

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