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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

Seneca the Younger

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
All art is but imitation of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Art Garden Philosophical
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Thrown Ungrateful
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Element Madness Talent
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Darkness Mind Prosperity
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Men Nature Return
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dignity Easier Grow Start
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Active Employment Vice
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greed Luxury Madness Peace
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Life People
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Addiction Life Positive Thinking
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Brave Joy Laughing True
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Employment Indolence Stagnation
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Atheist Religious Wise

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