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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

Seneca the Younger

Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Advice Body Disease
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Men Powerful
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 was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Land Travel World
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Leisure Vice
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Idea Men Work Write
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Honor Justice Loss
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Color Life Mastery Wisdom
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Chance Hatred Wrath
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Piece
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Causes Grieve Sorrow
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Men Wise
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal

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