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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca the Younger

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Land Travel World
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Men Unhappy
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Drunkenness People Vices
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ignorant Life Soul
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deceive Give Men Return Think
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Men Philosophical
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
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Approach Lying Thousand
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Chance Hatred Wrath
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Moderation Unstable
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conscience Foundation Joy True
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Joy True Vex
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heart Think View

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