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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Seneca the Younger

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
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
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
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
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
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
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
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life

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