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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

Seneca the Younger

The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
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 Mingle Wise
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
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.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

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