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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca the Younger

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
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
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.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick

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