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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

Seneca the Younger

If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Judge Persuade Sin
After death there is nothing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

After Death Life Nothing
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dawn Expectation Night
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deed Punishment Wickedness
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Health Inside Love People
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
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Our Please Word
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ambition Limit Progress
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Director Teacher Vice
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hateful
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Error First Step
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
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Intelligence Mediocrity
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

Down Hand Let Pit
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

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