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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

Seneca the Younger

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learner Library Wander
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Laughter
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Management Planning
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Life People
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
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier
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
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Piece
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bear Matter Things
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hand Men Wise
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Half More Trouble
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 thousand approaches lie open to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Approach Lying Thousand
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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