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Seneca the Younger

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Betray Faces Guilt
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Error First Step
Life is long if you know how to use it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Long Use
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Kind Misery Spiteful
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Shortness Waste
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Joy True Vex
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fate Guides Inspirational
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Add Another Day Time
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cultivation Culture May Mind
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anything Delight Help Other
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Innocence Men Mind
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Distance Inspire Life

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