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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.

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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Down Hand Let Pit
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
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
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
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
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
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
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.

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