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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

Seneca the Younger

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
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
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

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