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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.

Seneca the Younger

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hateful
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
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
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
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Life Money
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.
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Affection Coal Squares
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Men Nature Return
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beneficial Delightful Read
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Life Wisdom
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Honor Justice Loss
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fate Guides Inspirational

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