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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Seneca the Younger

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
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
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Money Philosophical Slavery
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Knowledge Learning Love

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