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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

Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
Men learn while they teach.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
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
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
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
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise

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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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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