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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.

Seneca the Younger

Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
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
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
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
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain

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