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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

Seneca the Younger

There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Generation Humanity Passion
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
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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Fate Men Wish
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
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.
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Innocence Men Mind
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
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.
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Death Joy Men

He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

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