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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.

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Gratitude, Time, Men

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

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Trust, Philosophical, Don't Trust
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

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True Joy, Foundation, Vex

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.

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God, Void, Turns

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

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Life, Giving, Hours

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

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Learning, Surprising, Whole

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

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Money, Passion, Worry

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

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Positivity, Mind, Stoicism

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

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Matter, Persons

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

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Men, Trying, He Man

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

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Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.

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Goodness

He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.

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Pardon

Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.

Seneca the Younger
Effort, Mind, Relaxation

As long as you live, learn how to live.

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Long

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

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Wisdom, Restriction, Should

If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.

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Evil, Companion, Propensity
"Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius)". Book by Seneca the Younger (Letter CIV), circa 65 AD.

Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

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Memories, Kindness, Remembrance

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

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Art, Philosophical, Political
"The Madness of Hercules". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 54 AD.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

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Philosophical, Punishment, Guilt
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To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

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Mad, Argument, Strive

Nothing is ours except time.

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Time, Acceptance, Time Management

The sun shines even on the wicked.

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Evil, Shining, Wicked
"De Beneficiis", III. 25, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 235-36, 1922.

To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

Seneca the Younger
Tongue, Firsts, Silent

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

Seneca the Younger
Aging, Life Is, Delightful

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