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

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
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Employment Indolence Stagnation
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Outcome War
Successful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Successful Villany Virtue
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Men World
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Steer Talk Vessel
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
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Color Life Mastery Wisdom
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
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Management Planning
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Congratulations Success Think
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dignity Easier Grow Start
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Education Men Teacher
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion People Person World
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Remember Tolerance

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