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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.

Seneca the Younger

If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Life Love People Person
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
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
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Wisdom Wise
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Life Suicidal
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Men Philosophical
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Infidelity Men Wife
[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.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
SENECA THE YOUNGER

heavy Oneself Servitude

A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.

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