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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.

Seneca the Younger

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Life Money
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Merit Test
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
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
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Blow Thinking
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak

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