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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

Seneca the Younger

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admire Guide Speak
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
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
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Motivational

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