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“Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.”

Seneca the Younger

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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 common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks…

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Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

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Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

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