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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

Seneca the Younger

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Die People Philosophy Themselves
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
Life without literary studies is death.
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Death Life Literature Study
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
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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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
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
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
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
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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