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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca the Younger

Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak
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
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
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
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Money Philosophical Slavery
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve

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