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

Seneca the Younger

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ashame Master Servitude
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fate Men Wish
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
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Burn Grief Secret
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
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Infidelity Men Wife
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anything Delight Help Other
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Remember Suffer Sweet
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Education Men Teacher
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
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Pain Release
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hear More Nobody Repeat
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Attack Blow Revenge Wise

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