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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.

Seneca the Younger

Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
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
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
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
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace

No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.

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