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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

Seneca the Younger

The part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

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

Death Known Lying Well
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Add Another Day Time
The sun shines even on the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Evil Shine Wicked
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
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
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Remember Suffer Sweet
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

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