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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.

Seneca the Younger

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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
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
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
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
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success

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