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Life is long if you know how to use it.

Seneca the Younger

The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Matter Think Unblest
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Health Inside Love People
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ad Death Journey Life
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excellence Philosophical Quality
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
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Motivational Positive
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary

Life is long if you know how to use it.

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