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The worse a person is the less he feels it.

Seneca the Younger

Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
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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Ambition Know Mind
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
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
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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