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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

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Inspirational Other Positive
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Liberal Philosophical Trust
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fault Impetuosity Youth
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
No crime has been without a precedent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Precedent Prison
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy Themselves
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Disappointment Office Years
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Dying Wonder
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise

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