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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.

Seneca the Younger

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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
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
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
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
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Inspirational Success Tattoo
If you judge, investigate.
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