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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.

Seneca the Younger

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
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
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Joy Men
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 world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dread Fear Much Unfit

[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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[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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