Seneca
Seneca
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The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business
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Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity
god heard men saw
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
men
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
men
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
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In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.
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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
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Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success
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We had reports of 8 to 10 inches on the Outer Banks and 4 to 6 inches in coastal counties,
blessing confidence source
There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none