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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.

Seneca the Younger

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Director Teacher Vice
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
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
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
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
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow

All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.

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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.

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