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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

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.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
[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
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak
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
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
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

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