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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

Seneca the Younger

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
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Wisdom Wise
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.
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Anger Life Suicidal
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Liberal Philosophical Trust
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Betray Faces Guilt
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Remember Suffer Sweet

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