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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

Seneca the Younger

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Death Philosophical
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
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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Down Hand Let Pit
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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Anxiety Leisure Praying
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together

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