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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

Seneca the Younger

The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
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
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Christian Emotion Give Men
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessed Blessing Confidence
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Grace Judge Pain
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal

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