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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.

Seneca the Younger

Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Length Quiet Weary
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Men Wind
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
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
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fear Thing Think
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness

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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