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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Seneca the Younger

If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
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
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
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
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

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