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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.

Seneca the Younger

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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
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

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