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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Seneca the Younger

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.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
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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