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In every good man a God doth dwell.

Seneca the Younger

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
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
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement

In every good man a God doth dwell.

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