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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Seneca the Younger

Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
[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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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
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
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent

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