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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.

Seneca the Younger

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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
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
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
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.
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Give Inspirational Men
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request

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