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

Seneca the Younger

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
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition

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

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