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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Seneca the Younger

Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Gratitude Profit Virtue

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