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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Seneca the Younger

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Long Thing Well
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Depress Mind Quality
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

End Inspirational Way
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Example Luxury Mischief People
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Believe Birthday Happiness
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Numbers Peril Slavery
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Down Hand Let Pit
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Forward Life Look Past
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hand Men Wise
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Compact Made Poverty Rich
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Remember Tolerance
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Poison Sweet
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Joy True Vex
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
No crime has been without a precedent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Precedent Prison

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