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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

Seneca the Younger

There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Changed Investing Situation
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Believe Birthday Happiness
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Greater Progress
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Piece
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
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Atheist Religious Wise

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

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