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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.

Seneca the Younger

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
[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
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together

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