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

Seneca the Younger

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excess Pleasure Repetition
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Care Dumb Light
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Equality Vice Virtue
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Son Success
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Color Life Mastery Wisdom
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Gratitude Profit Virtue
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conscience Foundation Joy True
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Brave Joy Laughing True
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deceive Give Men Return Think
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law People Retirement
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Congratulations Success Think
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Remember Suffer Sweet
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Luck Opportunity Preparation
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Evil Real Suffering

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

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