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

Seneca the Younger

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law People Retirement
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Management Planning
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
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Past Time
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Gratitude Profit Virtue
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
The part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspiration Life Part Short Success
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feel Philosophical Real
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Independence Step Treatment
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bear Matter Things

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