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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

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Resolution
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
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
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heal Inspirational Reason
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Brave Joy Laughing True
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ad Death Journey Life
The expression of truth is simplicity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Expression Inspirational Simplicity
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blame Giving Judgement Speak
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
One hand washes the other.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excess Pleasure Repetition
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Demand Equal Wicked
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Land Travel World

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