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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Seneca the Younger

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Son Success
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

End Inspirational Way
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Choice Dressing Practice Window
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Continue Dream Indulge Men
[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
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Piece
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Evil Real Suffering
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Prudence Punish
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Approach Lying Thousand
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Way Wisdom
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Pain Release
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Land Law People Person
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desirable People Poor
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Destiny Fate Inspirational
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Equality Vice Virtue
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Outcome War

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