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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

Seneca the Younger

Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Joy Men
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Blow Thinking
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Add Another Day Time
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ashame Master Servitude
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Director Teacher Vice
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Door Find Men Open
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Educational Schoolroom Taught
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Demand Equal Wicked
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fear Thing Think
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law People Retirement
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Drunkenness People Vices
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Land Law People Person
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bear Matter Things
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Kindness Life

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

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