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Seneca the Younger

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Men World
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Happiness Life
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Depress Mind Quality
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Wise
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Men Mind
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Efficacious Example Good Tedious
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Success Tattoo
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Believe Birthday Happiness
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Life Money
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
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
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Modesty Repeat Time

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