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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

Seneca the Younger

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Secret Tedious Truth
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

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

Men Outcome War
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ancestry Brag Descent
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Evil Real Suffering
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beginnings Life New Spring
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 Prompt
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Give Inspirational Men
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Drink Insanity
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

End Eternity Fear
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Demand Equal Wicked
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
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beforehand Come Foresight Present
All art is but imitation of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Art Garden Philosophical
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Awareness Feels Safety Self
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Accord Deed Highest Proof Word

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