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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

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

Burn Grief Secret
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
Luck never made a man wise.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Wisdom Wise
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
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Intelligence Mediocrity
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Brave Joy Laughing True
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
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Infidelity Men Wife
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Greater Progress
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Failure Happiness
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Director Teacher Vice

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