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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

Seneca the Younger

Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Pain Release
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
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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Excess Pleasure Repetition
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Length Quiet Weary
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Arches Fall Inspiration

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

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