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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

Seneca the Younger

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
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
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
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.
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Death Joy Men
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

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