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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

Seneca the Younger

He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Generation Humanity Passion
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Half More Trouble
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace
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
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Dying Wonder
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Arrange Given Law Way
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ashame Master Servitude
One hand washes the other.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
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
Successful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Successful Villany Virtue
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison

Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

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