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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

Seneca the Younger

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
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
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
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
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
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
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank

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