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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

Seneca the Younger

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
The expression of truth is simplicity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Expression Inspirational Simplicity
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Emotion Matter More Person
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Brave Men
If you judge, investigate.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Judge Philosophical Umpire
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Happiness Life
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hateful
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Judge Persuade Sin
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hatred Men Revenge
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Emotion Goes Hold Love True
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dresses Fear Number
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Men Simplicity
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conscience Foundation Joy True

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