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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

Seneca the Younger

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
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
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 the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heal Inspirational Reason
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
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
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Director Teacher Vice

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