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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

Seneca the Younger

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Give Inspirational Men
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
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
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
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
[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

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