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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.

Seneca the Younger

Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
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
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
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
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
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason

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