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

Seneca the Younger

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help May Need
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
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
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier
As long as you live, learn how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Live Long
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.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Laughter

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