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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

Seneca the Younger

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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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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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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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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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