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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca the Younger

He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beforehand Come Foresight Present
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Giving Hour Life
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Teacher Vices
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bestnow Kindness Recieve
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Shortness Waste
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anticipation Expectations Miserable
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Addiction Life Positive Thinking
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
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Element Madness Talent
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heaven Soul Taken
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
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Liberal Philosophical Trust
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Wisdom Wise
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Men Unhappy
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Letter Together
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excess Pleasure Repetition

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