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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

Seneca the Younger

Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Medicine Men Search Sick
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
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
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help May Need

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