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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca the Younger

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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
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Fear drives the wretched to prayer
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The wish for healing has always been half of health.
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
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Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.
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A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
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The fear of war is worse than war itself.
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Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
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Money has never yet made anyone rich.
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While we wait for life, life passes
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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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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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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