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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

Seneca the Younger

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conclusion Justice May Side
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fear Thing Think
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
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Equality Vice Virtue
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Invites Refusal Request
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
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Quality Quantity Wise
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Advice Body Disease
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dream People Vice
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Believe Birthday Happiness
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Land Travel World
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Giver Mind
Time discovers truth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Discover Life Time Truth
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Greater Progress
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Prudence Punish

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