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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

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
After death there is nothing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

After Death Life Nothing
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Health Inside Love People
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 you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
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.
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Ambition Know Mind
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
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
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men

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