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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Seneca the Younger

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
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.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical

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