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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

Seneca the Younger

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Charity Disclose Office
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
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
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

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