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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Seneca the Younger

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deed Punishment Wickedness
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Assuming Honor Men
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
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
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
SENECA THE YOUNGER

heavy Oneself Servitude
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison

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