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If you judge, investigate.

Seneca the Younger

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
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
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer

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