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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

Seneca the Younger

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
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
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Love Rule
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conclusion Justice May Side
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Light might People
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Master Slave Tyranny
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Appreciation Gratitude Struggle

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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