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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

Seneca the Younger

That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.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
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.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life

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