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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

Seneca the Younger

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.
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Heaven Soul Taken
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
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.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
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
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
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.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
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.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
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 easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
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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