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

Seneca the Younger

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
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
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt
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
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men

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