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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

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
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
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise

[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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