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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

Seneca the Younger

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Men Powerful
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ambition Know Mind
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help May Need
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
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
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Know Modesty Return

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

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