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

Seneca the Younger

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
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
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
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 point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
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
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
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
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Love Rule
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Dying Wonder
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life

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