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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.

Seneca the Younger

There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
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
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
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
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think

If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.

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