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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

Seneca the Younger

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Past Time
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.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
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Happiness Inspirational Laughter
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
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
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise

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