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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

Seneca the Younger

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
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
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny

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