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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

Seneca the Younger

Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Merit Test
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

God Heard Life Men
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Character Crooked Need
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Steer Talk Vessel
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Delight Help Others Support
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
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ad Death Journey Life
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
If you judge, investigate.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Judge Philosophical Umpire
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Stores Use
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dream People Vice
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
SENECA THE YOUNGER

heavy Oneself Servitude
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excellence Philosophical Quality
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
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Success Tattoo
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Able Mind Pause Proof Wise

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

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