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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Seneca the Younger

[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
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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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
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
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason

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