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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.

Seneca the Younger

What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
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
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 doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person

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