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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.

Seneca the Younger

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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
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
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
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
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
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
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue

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