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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca the Younger

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Drink Insanity
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Dying Wonder
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Our Please Word
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Choices Little Struggle
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Men Simplicity
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
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Give Inspirational Men
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Avarice Need Poverty
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heal Inspirational Reason
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Continue Dream Indulge Men
No crime has been without a precedent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Precedent Prison
If you judge, investigate.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Judge Philosophical Umpire
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Letter Together
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?
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Mind Speech View
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learner Library Wander
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Infidelity Men Wife

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

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