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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

Seneca the Younger

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
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
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
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
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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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men

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