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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

Seneca the Younger

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Dying Wonder
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heart Think View
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Love Rule
Life without literary studies is death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Life Literature Study
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
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
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

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