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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

Seneca the Younger

It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Equality Vice Virtue
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
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Dawn Philosophical
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Darkness Mind Prosperity
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heal Inspirational Reason
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Disappointment Office Years
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspiration Motivational Wisdom

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

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