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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Seneca the Younger

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Forward Life Look Past
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Half More Trouble
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Happiness Life
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Arm Denial Hero Self
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Health Inside Love People
He who has great power should use it lightly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

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