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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca the Younger

The sun shines even on the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Evil Shine Wicked
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
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
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Arrange Given Law Way
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help May Need
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Compact Made Poverty Rich

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