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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

Seneca the Younger

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
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
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Numbers Peril Slavery
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Judge Persuade Sin

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

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