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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Seneca the Younger

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
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
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
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
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
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

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