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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Seneca the Younger

He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Disappointment Office Years
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Management Planning
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Example Luxury Mischief People
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Integrity Responsibility
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Shortness Waste
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Arches Fall Inspiration
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Betray Faces Guilt
Time discovers truth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Discover Life Time Truth
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

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

Death Known Lying Well
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Congratulations Success Think
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bear Mind Money Wealth
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Health Inside Love People
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Inspirational Other Positive
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

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