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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

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Brave Men
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.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Forward Life Look Past
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admire Praise Provoking
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
He who has great power should use it lightly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Philosophical Vision
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law People Retirement
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspiration Motivational Wisdom

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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