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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

Seneca the Younger

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Outcome War
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
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 young man must store up, the old man must use.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Stores Use
Revenge is an inhuman word.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inhuman Revenge World
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Giving Hour Life
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Matter Think Unblest
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?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Speech View
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Wisdom Wise
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Men Mind
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Drink Insanity
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Brave Joy Laughing True
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deceive Give Men Return Think
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beforehand Come Foresight Present
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Appreciation Gratitude Struggle

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