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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

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help May Need
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Land Travel World
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Motto Nature Stoic
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Changed Investing Situation
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heard Side Well
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Half More Trouble
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
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law Name Successful
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Down Hand Let Pit
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fate Guilt Guilty
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Emotion Goes Hold Love True
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Men Mind
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bles Life Live Well

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