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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!

Seneca the Younger

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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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Adversity Failure Happiness
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
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
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming

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