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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

Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Blow Thinking
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Remember Suffer Sweet
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hatred
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
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
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Our Please Word

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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