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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

Seneca the Younger

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
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
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life

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