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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.

Seneca the Younger

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Good Innocence Law
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Land Travel World
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical

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