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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

Seneca the Younger

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophy Plato Science
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law People Retirement
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
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
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
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
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Kindness Life
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Men Wind

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