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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

Seneca the Younger

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Christian Emotion Give Men
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
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
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
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
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

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