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People do not die – they kill themselves.

Seneca the Younger

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Quality Quantity Wise
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Joy Men
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
SENECA THE YOUNGER

heavy Oneself Servitude
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Thrown Ungrateful
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Son Success
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Continue Dream Indulge Men
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
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
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Down Hand Let Pit

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