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"Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues."
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Quintilian
"Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues."
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"One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions."
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Horace
"One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions."
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"Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death."
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Horace
"Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death."
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"The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."
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Titus Livius
"The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."
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"It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity."
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Horace
"It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity."
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"In adversity remember to keep an even mind."
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Horace
"In adversity remember to keep an even mind."
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"Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be."
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Marcus Fabius Quintilian
"Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be."
"The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body."
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Marcus Fabius Quintilian
"The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body."
"Time is generally the best doctor."
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Ovid
"Time is generally the best doctor."
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"Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything."
"Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability."
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Titus Maccius Plautus
"Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability."
"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit."
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Publilius Syrus
"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit."
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"The outcome is not up to you. The outlook is."
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Germany Kent
"The outcome is not up to you. The outlook is."
"Use social media for good and lift others up, not tear them down. Stay on the high road. Keep your peace."
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Germany Kent
"Use social media for good and lift others up, not tear them down. Stay on the high road. Keep your peace."
"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."
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Horace
"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."
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"It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind."
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Lucretius
"It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind."
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"Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers."
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Virgil
"Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers."
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"We are just statistics, born to consume resources."
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Horace
"We are just statistics, born to consume resources."
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"How to change the world: spread positivity; bring people up instead of dragging them down; treat others the way you wish to be treated."
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Germany Kent
"How to change the world: spread positivity; bring people up instead of dragging them down; treat others the way you wish to be treated."
"Courage easily finds its own eloquence."
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Titus Maccius Plautus
"Courage easily finds its own eloquence."
"The best plan is to profit by the folly of others."
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Pliny the Elder
"The best plan is to profit by the folly of others."
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"Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb."
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Seneca
"Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb."
"Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name."
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Lucan
"Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name."
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"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty."
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Tacitus
"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty."
"It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country."
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Horace
"It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country."
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"Never give up. Things may be hard, but if you quit trying they'll never get better. Stop worrying and start trusting God. It will be worth it."
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Germany Kent
"Never give up. Things may be hard, but if you quit trying they'll never get better. Stop worrying and start trusting God. It will be worth it."
"There has never been a more urgent time than now for you to seek to maximize your potential for achieving greater balance in your life."
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Germany Kent
"There has never been a more urgent time than now for you to seek to maximize your potential for achieving greater balance in your life."
"What you post online speaks VOLUME about who you really are. POST with intention. REPOST with caution."
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Germany Kent
"What you post online speaks VOLUME about who you really are. POST with intention. REPOST with caution."
"If you're reading this, I hope God opens incredible doors for your life this year. Greatness is upon you. You must believe it though."
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Germany Kent
"If you're reading this, I hope God opens incredible doors for your life this year. Greatness is upon you. You must believe it though."
"Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error."
"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with."
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Marcus Aurelius
"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with."
"Keep expecting and believing that your due season is coming. Declare that the good you have harvested in your life will manifest."
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Germany Kent
"Keep expecting and believing that your due season is coming. Declare that the good you have harvested in your life will manifest."
"Embrace who you are and your divine purpose. Identify the barriers in your life, and develop discipline, courage and the strength to permanently move beyond them, and keep moving forward."
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Germany Kent
"Embrace who you are and your divine purpose. Identify the barriers in your life, and develop discipline, courage and the strength to permanently move beyond them, and keep moving forward."
"If it doesn't agree with your spirit let it go."
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Germany Kent
"If it doesn't agree with your spirit let it go."
"Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed."
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Seneca
"Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed."
"I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors."
"Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them."
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Seneca
"Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them."
"Learn how to feel joy."
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Seneca
"Learn how to feel joy."
"Faith in God will elevate you to next level blessings."
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Germany Kent
"Faith in God will elevate you to next level blessings."
"I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene."
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Seneca
"I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene."
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"Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman."
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Seneca
"Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman."
"While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse."
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Terence
"While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse."
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"Hold on to anything you find that's good and workable for you. Drop anything negative where you find it."
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Germany Kent
"Hold on to anything you find that's good and workable for you. Drop anything negative where you find it."
"Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view."
"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself."
"So let those people go on weeping and wailing whose self-indulgent minds have been weakened by long prosperity, let them collapse at the threat of the most trivial injuries; but let those who have spent all their years suffering disasters endure the worst afflictions with a brave and resolute staunchness. Everlasting misfortune does have one blessing, that it ends up by toughening those whom it constantly afflicts."
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Seneca
"So let those people go on weeping and wailing whose self-indulgent minds have been weakened by long prosperity, let them collapse at the threat of the most trivial injuries; but let those who have spent all their years suffering disasters endure the worst afflictions with a brave and resolute staunchness. Everlasting misfortune does have one blessing, that it ends up by toughening those whom it constantly afflicts."
"Verse satire indeed is entirely our own."
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Quintilian
"Verse satire indeed is entirely our own."
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"Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed."
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Titus Livius
"Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed."
"To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand."
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Seneca
"To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand."
"From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods."
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Virgil
"From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods."
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