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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

Seneca the Younger

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Known Lying Well
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cultivation Culture May Mind
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Life Wise
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Choice Dressing Practice Window
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greed Luxury Madness Peace
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learner Library Wander
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Poison Sweet
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
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
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
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Honor Justice Loss

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