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

Seneca the Younger

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
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.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue

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

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

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