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

Seneca the Younger

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Kindness Life
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Master Slave Tyranny
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical

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