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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Seneca the Younger

When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

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