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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.

Seneca the Younger

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
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.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.

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