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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.

Seneca the Younger

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

Courage Hero Life
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Men Nature Return
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Example Luxury Mischief People
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Choice Dressing Practice Window
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cause Loss Negligence
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hateful
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Joy True Vex
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

End Inspirational Way
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Life Suicidal
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
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
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dominion Eternal Unjust

The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.

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