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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

What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Thrown Ungrateful
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Money Philosophical Slavery
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Relaxation Stronger
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Leisure Praying
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Insane Insanity Men
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Assuming Honor Men
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bear Matter Things
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ignorant Life Soul
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Humble Men Poverty
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Steer Talk Vessel

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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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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