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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Seneca the Younger

True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Motivational
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Color Life Mastery Wisdom
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Active Employment Vice
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fate Guides Inspirational
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Error First Step
Where fear is, happiness is not.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Motivational
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Laughter
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessed Blessing Confidence
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Humble Men Poverty
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Piece
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deed Punishment Wickedness
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Allay Counsel Grief Light
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Employment Indolence Stagnation
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Land Law People Person

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