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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.

Seneca the Younger

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
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
Men learn while they teach.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
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.
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Give Inspirational Men
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness 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
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ambition Know Mind
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece

That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.

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