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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.

Seneca the Younger

It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Give Inspirational Men
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Half More Trouble
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
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
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hear More Nobody Repeat
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way

If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.

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