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Seneca the Younger

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
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
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel

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