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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.

Seneca the Younger

True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
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.
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Future Happiness Life
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Money Philosophical Slavery
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
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
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.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
[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.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Men Powerful
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth

Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.

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