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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Seneca the Younger

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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
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
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
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

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