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Just as the mother's womb holds us for ten months not in preparation for itself but for the region to which we seem to be discharged when we a...
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Business
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. Anger
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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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Why does no one confess his sins Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.
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Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
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We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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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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We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
By Lucius Annaeus Seneca