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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.

Seneca the Younger

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
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
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice

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