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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca the Younger

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Efficacious Example Good Tedious
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Gratitude Profit Virtue
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law People Retirement
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heal Inspirational Reason
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Advice Body Disease
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy Themselves

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