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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

Seneca the Younger

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Men World
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Pain Release
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Men Nature Return
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
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Destiny Drag Guides
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Believe Birthday Happiness

The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

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