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To govern was to serve, not to rule.

Seneca the Younger

What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Made Own Progress
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Past Time
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Wisdom Wise
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dignity Easier Grow Start
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hatred
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Secret Tedious Truth
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Management Planning
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Applaude Causes Proof
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law Name Successful
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Give Judgement
To the stars through difficulties.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Difficulty Live Stars
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Long Thing Well
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Modesty Repeat Time

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

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