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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Seneca the Younger

Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Integrity Responsibility
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessed Blessing Confidence
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
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.
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Blessing Death Mean
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Arches Fall Inspiration
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Money Philosophical Slavery

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

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