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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

Seneca the Younger

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
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
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Men Powerful
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Our Please Word

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

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