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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.

Seneca the Younger

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Light might People
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Way Wisdom
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
Whatever begins, also ends.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Begin Close End Time
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
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
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Success Wisdom
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Stores Use
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Leisure Praying
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Awareness Feels Safety Self

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