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

Seneca the Younger

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
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
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble

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