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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
Men learn while they teach.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
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
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

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