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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.

Seneca the Younger

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Master Slave Tyranny
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Congratulations Success Think
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Moderation Unstable
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Happiness Life
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

God Superstitions Worship
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
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
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Perseverance Sowing
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Joy True Vex
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law People Retirement
Successful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Successful Villany Virtue
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 Wise
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ashame Master Servitude
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Integrity Responsibility
Where fear is, happiness is not.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Counsel Grief Light People

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