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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.

Seneca the Younger

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
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
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
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
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
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
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
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
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise

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