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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.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

His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
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.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself

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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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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