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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

Seneca the Younger

That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

End Eternity Fear
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Burn Grief Secret
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
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
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Emotion Goes Hold Love True
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 expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Give Judgement
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Known Lying Well
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Men Mind
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fault Impetuosity Youth
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Book Mind Together
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Down Hand Let Pit
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Humble Men Poverty

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

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