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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.

Seneca the Younger

The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Land Law People Person
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Drink Insanity
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

First Give Prudence Science
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Burn Grief Secret
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

God Turn Void Work
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Land Travel World
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Knowledge Learning Love
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Medicine Men Search Sick
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law Name Successful
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise

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