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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

Seneca the Younger

Don’t stumble over something behind you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
He who is brave is free.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bravery Freedom Reality
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Arrange Given Law Way
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Disappointment Office Years
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Death Philosophical
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Addiction Life Positive Thinking
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Dawn Philosophical
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Director Teacher Vice
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Merit Test
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth

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