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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.

Seneca the Younger

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.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
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
[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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well

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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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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