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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

Seneca the Younger

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

Help Intelligence Mediocrity
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Life Money
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Addiction Life Positive Thinking
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Happiness Life
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Assuming Honor Men
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
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Epileptic Precaution Regard
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Chance Hatred Wrath
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Home Life Short Spiritual
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
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fault Impetuosity Youth
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Forward Life Look Past

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

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