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If you wish to be loved, love.

Seneca the Younger

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
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
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
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
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men

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