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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

Seneca the Younger

In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
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
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
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
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
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
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
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth

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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