No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTrue happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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