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While crime is punished it yet increases.

Seneca the Younger

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Happiness Life
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heaven Soul Taken
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Depress Mind Quality
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Long Thing Well
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beneficial Delightful Read
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Destiny Fate Inspirational
He who has great power should use it lightly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Philosophical Vision
Whatever begins, also ends.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Begin Close End Time
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Believe Birthday Happiness
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.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present

While crime is punished it yet increases.

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