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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.

Seneca the Younger

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Happiness Life
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Life Suicidal
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Leisure Praying
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Air Breath Deep Spirit
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Relaxation Stronger
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admire Guide Speak
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Judge Persuade Sin
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Believe Birthday Happiness
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Arrange Given Law Way
Life is long if you know how to use it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Long Use
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
While crime is punished it yet increases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Increase Prison

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