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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

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Educational Schoolroom Taught
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cultivation Culture May Mind
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Arm Denial Hero Self
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

End Inspirational Way
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
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
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

Master Slave Tyranny
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Philosophical Prison
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Matter Think Unblest
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

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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