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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Seneca the Younger

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Consistency Deed
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Assuming Honor Men
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conscience Foundation Joy True
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Air Breath Deep Spirit
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy Themselves
One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Philosophical Prison
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Men Wise
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

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

Motto Nature Stoic
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Remember Suffer Sweet
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

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