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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.

Seneca the Younger

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dresses Fear Number
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
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hand Men Wise
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
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?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feeling Forgiveness Innocent

He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.

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