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Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
Seneca the Younger
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Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.
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When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?
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That which takes effect by chance is not an art.
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.
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Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
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He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
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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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Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
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The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.
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Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride
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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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