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While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Seneca the Younger

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
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
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
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
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
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
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
[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
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

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