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

Seneca the Younger

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
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
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
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
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat

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