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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

Seneca the Younger

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 Prompt
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
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
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Joy True Vex
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking

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