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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca the Younger

He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
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
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Gratitude Profit Virtue
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

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