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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Seneca the Younger

There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Numbers Peril Slavery
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men

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