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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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Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.
Seneca the Younger
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
Seneca the Younger
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The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.
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Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
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Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.
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The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
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We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Learn how to feel joy.
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Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.
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Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
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Man is a social animal.
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We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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While we teach, we learn.
Seneca the Younger