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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

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
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
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
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
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 first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
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 is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Health Inside Love People
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration

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