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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

Seneca the Younger

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
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
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light

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