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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

Seneca the Younger

God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Health Inside Love People
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Wisdom Wise
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Successful Temerity Virtue
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Way Wisdom
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Merit Test
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dignity Easier Grow Start
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
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Gratitude Profit Virtue
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anything Delight Help Other
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ashame Master Servitude
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Men World
The part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspiration Life Part Short Success
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Genius Madness Mixtures
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 shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Lying Money Political

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