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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed

Seneca the Younger

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
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
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Money Philosophical Slavery
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live 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
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
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
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Motivational Positive

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