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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

Seneca the Younger

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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Failure Happiness
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
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.
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Future Happiness Life
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Love Rule
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Resolution
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Intelligence Mediocrity

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