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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.

Seneca the Younger

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
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
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
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility

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