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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca the Younger

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
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.
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Hatred Men Revenge
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Assuming Honor Men
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
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
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

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