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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

Seneca the Younger

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Failure Happiness
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Light might People
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
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
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Known Lying Well
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Example Luxury Mischief People
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Destiny Fate Inspirational
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heaven Soul Taken

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