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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.

Seneca the Younger

All art is but imitation of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Art Garden Philosophical
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dread Fear Much Unfit
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
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
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Assuming Honor Men Prompt
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Remember Tolerance
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
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
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Outcome War

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