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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

Seneca the Younger

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Son Success
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
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
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self

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