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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)

Seneca the Younger

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
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
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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Choices Little Struggle
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
[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
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable

Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)

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