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People do not die – they kill themselves.

Seneca the Younger

Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conquer Kindness Recognise
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Escape Necessity Overcoming
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality

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