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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

Seneca the Younger

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
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hatred Men Revenge
His head was turned by too great success.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Great Success Success
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Teacher Vices
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
Life without literary studies is death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Life Literature Study
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion People Person World
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Men World
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Made Own Progress
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excellence Philosophical Quality
A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Money Philosophical Slavery
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admire Praise Provoking
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Letter Together
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beneficial Delightful Read
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

Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bear Matter Things

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

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