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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

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
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
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
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Assuming Honor Men Prompt
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night

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.

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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.

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