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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

Seneca the Younger

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hatred Men Revenge
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Give Inspirational Men
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

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