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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

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 first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
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
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
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
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
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
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

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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