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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

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit

[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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