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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

Seneca the Younger

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heal Inspirational Reason
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
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fear Light Philosophical
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Master Slave Tyranny
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Doubt Hope Wise
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Arrange Given Law Way
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Independence Step Treatment
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 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
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Greater Progress
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
Men learn while they teach.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Education Inspirational Teacher
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Letter Together
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Luck Opportunity Preparation
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feel Philosophical Real

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

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