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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

Seneca the Younger

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
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
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
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
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
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
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

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