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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

Seneca the Younger

All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
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
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise

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