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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

Seneca the Younger

Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Employment Indolence Stagnation
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
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
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Knowledge Learning Love
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
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.
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Give Inspirational 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
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

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