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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca the Younger

Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Motto Nature Stoic
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Changed Investing Situation
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Numbers Peril Slavery
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Action Destination Honor
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Burn Grief Secret
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
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

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