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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

Seneca the Younger

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
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
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
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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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

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