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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.

Seneca the Younger

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Idea Men Work Write
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
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
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
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
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.
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Book Mind Together
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational

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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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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