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Seneca the Younger

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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
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
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
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.
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Give Inspirational Men
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
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
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity

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