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As long as you live, learn how to live.

Seneca the Younger

[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
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration

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