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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.

Seneca the Younger

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
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
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction

He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.

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