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The world itself is too small for the covetous.

Seneca the Younger

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fear Thing Think
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
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
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
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.
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Anger Life Suicidal
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hatred

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