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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

Seneca the Younger

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
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
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
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
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
[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
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Changed Investing Situation

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

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