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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

Seneca the Younger

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
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
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation

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