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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Seneca the Younger

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
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
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
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
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Piece
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men

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