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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Seneca the Younger

Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
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
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

God Heard Life Men
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.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Justice May Philosophical

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