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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Seneca the Younger

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
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
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
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
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

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