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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.

Seneca the Younger

There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessed Blessing Confidence
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

God Heard Life Men
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 hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Giving Hour Life
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ambition Know Mind
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Knowledge Learning Love
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Numbers Peril Slavery
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bles Life Live Well
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Error First Step
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excellence Philosophical Quality
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Applaude Causes Proof
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Life Wise
All art is but imitation of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Art Garden Philosophical
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greed Luxury Madness Peace

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