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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

Seneca the Younger

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beneficial Delightful Read
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
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heal Inspirational Reason
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Educational Schoolroom Taught
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Gratitude Profit Virtue
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares

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