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

Seneca the Younger

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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
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
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
Men learn while they teach.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
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
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.
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Light might People
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity

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