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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.

Seneca the Younger

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ad Death Journey Life
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Book Mind Together
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Give Inspirational Men
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy Themselves
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Death Philosophical
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Advice Body Disease
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophy Plato Science
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Leisure Praying

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