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Who timidly requests invites refusal.

Seneca the Younger

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Betray Faces Guilt
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Destiny Drag Guides
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bestnow Kindness Recieve
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Drink Insanity
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Wisdom Wise
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Efficacious Example Good Tedious
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
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Kind Misery Spiteful
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Give Inspirational Men
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conquer Kindness Recognise
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Laughter
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
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Men Mind
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand

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