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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

Seneca the Younger

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[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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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
After death there is nothing.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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