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Seneca the Younger

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
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
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
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.
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Future Happiness Life
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
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger

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