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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

Seneca the Younger

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Assuming Honor Men Prompt
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Motivational Positive
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Dying Wonder
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
Life without literary studies is death.
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Death Life Literature Study

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