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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

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
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
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

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