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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.

Seneca the Younger

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Avarice Need Poverty
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
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.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Motivational
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own

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