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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

Seneca the Younger

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
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
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
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
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
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

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