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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

Seneca the Younger

In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bear Mind Money Wealth
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heart Think View
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Efficacious Example Good Tedious
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dignity Easier Grow Start
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Humble Men Poverty
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Choices Little Struggle
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admire Guide Speak
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law Name Successful
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ignorant Life Soul
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Color Life Mastery Wisdom
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dawn Expectation Night

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