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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.

Seneca the Younger

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
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
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
[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
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
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
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic

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