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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

Seneca the Younger

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
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
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition

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