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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.

Seneca the Younger

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
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
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Happiness Life
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise

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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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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