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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Seneca the Younger

While we are postponing, life speeds by.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Life Wisdom
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Door Find Men Open
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
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
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
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
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
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
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Give Judgement

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