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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Seneca the Younger

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Men Unhappy
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Stores Use
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
Men learn while they teach.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Education Inspirational Teacher
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
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
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ad Death Journey Life
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Pain Release

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

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