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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Seneca the Younger

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Blow Thinking
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excess Pleasure Repetition
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ignorant Life Soul
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Health Inside Love People
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Men Wind
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Men Unhappy
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessing Death Mean
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Management Planning
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Atheist Religious Wise
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Light might People
One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Philosophical Prison

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

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