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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Seneca the Younger

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

Dignity Easier Grow Start
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Piece
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Kindness Life
Successful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Successful Villany Virtue
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Character Crooked Need
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Insane Insanity Men
Whatever begins, also ends.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Begin Close End Time
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Success Tattoo
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Knowledge Learning Love
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Life Money
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Enough Language Truth
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hateful
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desirable People Poor
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

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