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Where fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca the Younger

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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Period Place Time Uncertain
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
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
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?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Speech View
As long as you live, learn how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Live Long
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Men Wind
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Drink Insanity
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Men World
While crime is punished it yet increases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Increase Prison
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Demand Equal Wicked
The part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspiration Life Part Short Success
In every good man a God doth dwell.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Good Man Very
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Action Destination Honor
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Good Innocence Law
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Lying Money Political

Where fear is, happiness is not.

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