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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

Seneca the Younger

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
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
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
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
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
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
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind

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