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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

He who is brave is free.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bravery Freedom Reality
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dread Fear Much Unfit
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
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.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
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
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Knowledge Learning Love
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
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.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Example Luxury Mischief People
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cause Loss Negligence

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.

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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.

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