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

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
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
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
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
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
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
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity

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