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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.

Seneca the Younger

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
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
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person

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