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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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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
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
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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