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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

Seneca the Younger

Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Leisure Vice
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Book Mind Together
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Assuming Honor Men
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Piece
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Stores Use
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity

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