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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Seneca the Younger

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Christian Emotion Give Men
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Stores Use
Revenge is an inhuman word.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inhuman Revenge World
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Gratitude Profit Virtue
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Leisure Vice
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

God Superstitions Worship
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Men Powerful
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Favor Silent Speak
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Innocence Men Mind
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Wisdom Wise
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Medicine Men Search Sick
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Men Mind
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Applaude Causes Proof
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Good Innocence Law
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cause Loss Negligence

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

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