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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

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
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Grace Judge Pain
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace
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
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Piece
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Infidelity Men Wife
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Past Time
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
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
If you judge, investigate.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Judge Philosophical Umpire
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Life Suicidal

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

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