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

Seneca the Younger

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
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
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
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
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
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Wise
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
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
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit

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