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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

Seneca the Younger

What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
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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Adversity Failure Happiness
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

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