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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

Seneca the Younger

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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
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
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
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
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
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.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
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
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life

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