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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.

Seneca the Younger

In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
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
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent

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