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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca the Younger

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
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion

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