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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

Seneca the Younger

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Emotion Matter More Person
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Relaxation Stronger
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
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
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Awareness Feels Safety Self
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Justice May Philosophical
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex

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