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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.

Seneca the Younger

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
[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
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison

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