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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.

Seneca the Younger

In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth
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
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conclusion Justice May Side
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Lying Money Political
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Insane Insanity Men
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Employment Indolence Stagnation
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
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Intelligence Mediocrity
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

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