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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.

Seneca the Younger

He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Disappointment Office Years
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Arrange Given Law Way
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

God Superstitions Worship
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Love Military Soldier
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Destiny Drag Guides
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deed Punishment Wickedness
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Humble Men Poverty
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heal Inspirational Reason
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other

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