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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

Seneca the Younger

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
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
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Give Inspirational Men
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
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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Adversity Giving Teeth
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
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.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable

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