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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

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
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
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
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
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
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hear More Nobody Repeat
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return

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