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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

Seneca the Younger

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
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.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Master Slave Tyranny
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number

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