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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.

Seneca the Younger

He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
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
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
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
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom

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