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

Seneca the Younger

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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
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
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
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
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War

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