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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

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
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Blow Thinking
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Humble Men Poverty
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
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excess Pleasure Repetition
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth
If you judge, investigate.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Judge Philosophical Umpire
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

God Superstitions Worship
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excellence Philosophical Quality
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Distance Inspire Life
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessed Blessing Confidence

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

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