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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

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking

[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.

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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.

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