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

Seneca the Younger

True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
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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Light might People
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
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.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
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 swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness 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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Gratitude Profit Virtue

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