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

Seneca the Younger

There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Arm Denial Hero Self
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Piece
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Advice Body Disease
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ashame Master Servitude
One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Philosophical Prison
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beginnings Life New Spring
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Emotion Goes Hold Love True
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
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Humble Men Poverty
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Idea Men Work Write
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Happiness Life
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
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
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
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deceit Dishonorable Think Write

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

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