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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

Seneca the Younger

Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
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
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

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