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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.

Seneca the Younger

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
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
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
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
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
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath

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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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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