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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Seneca the Younger

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Leisure Praying
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
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

God Superstitions Worship
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

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