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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

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
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
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
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
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices

[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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