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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”

Seneca the Younger

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Give Inspirational Men
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
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

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”

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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”

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