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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

Seneca the Younger

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Educational Schoolroom Taught
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cultivation Culture May Mind
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heart Think View
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessing Death Mean
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
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
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deed Punishment Wickedness
If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Life Love People Person

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