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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?

Seneca the Younger

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Distress Fellow Man
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
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Men Wind
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Counsel Grief Light People
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Approach Lying Thousand
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
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Blow Thinking
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Allay Counsel Grief Light
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heard Side Well
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Our Please Word
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Director Teacher Vice
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Number Slavery
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Love Rule

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