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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

Seneca the Younger

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Life People
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
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
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
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
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

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