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Seneca the Younger

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
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Generation Humanity Passion
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Grace Judge Pain
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Air Breath Deep Spirit
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Master Slave Tyranny
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
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
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Steer Talk Vessel
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Continue Dream Indulge Men
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fear Thing Think
Injustice never rules forever.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Forever Injustice Justice

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