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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.

Seneca the Younger

Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
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
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
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
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.

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