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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.

Seneca the Younger

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
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
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
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
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
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Generation Humanity Passion
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
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Resolution

If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.

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