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1.94kWe are in the habit of exaggerating or imagining or anticipating sorrow. We are torn by things present or about things yet to come. Consider whether your proofs of future troubles are sure. For it is more often the case that we are troubled by our apprehensions. Seneca
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- Quote created by SHANA MARIA VERGHIS
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<p>Irrational worries</p> -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. -
1.43kThe spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed. Seneca
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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There is no great genius without some touch of madness. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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The best ideas are common property. -
1.03kMen do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long. Seneca
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgement. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another. -
1.01kWithout an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of. Seneca
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road. -
1.1kWe should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it. Seneca
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.