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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.

Seneca the Younger

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Doubt Hope Wise
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
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
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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