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If you judge, investigate.

Seneca the Younger

[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing 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
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
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
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain

If you judge, investigate.

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