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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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