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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.

Seneca the Younger

His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
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
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!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heart Think View

There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.

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