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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.

Seneca the Younger

Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
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
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery

If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.

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