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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

Seneca the Younger

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
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.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Men Powerful
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Independence Step Treatment
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

God Turn Void Work

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