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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.

Seneca the Younger

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

Addiction Life Positive Thinking
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Men Wind
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admire Guide Speak
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Relaxation Stronger
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Life Suicidal
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Character Crooked Need
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Piece
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conquer Kindness Recognise
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fear Light Philosophical
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
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Allay Counsel Grief Light
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Life Wise
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Leisure Vice
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Accord Deed Highest Proof Word

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