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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

Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
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
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof

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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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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