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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

Seneca the Younger

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
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
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
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.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law Name Successful

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