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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

Seneca the Younger

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Chance Hatred Wrath
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
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ad Death Journey Life
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Accept Condonement Genius Measure
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Know Modesty Return
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophy Plato Science
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Men Wise
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Advice Body Disease
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

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

Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
The part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspiration Life Part Short Success
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.
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Law Name Successful
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
All art is but imitation of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Art Garden Philosophical
Whatever begins, also ends.
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