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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca the Younger

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Dawn Philosophical
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Give Inspirational Men
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
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
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessing Death Mean
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
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.
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Choices Little Struggle
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison

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