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The world itself is too small for the covetous.

Seneca the Younger

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dream People Vice
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
As long as you live, learn how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Live Long
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Remember Suffer Sweet
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
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Leisure Praying
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
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bles Life Live Well

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