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

Seneca the Younger

Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Our Please Word
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Letter Together
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learner Library Wander
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Birthday End Eternity Fear
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
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heal Inspirational Reason
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Management Planning
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Door Find Men Open
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
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Down Hand Let Pit
Luck never made a man wise.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Wisdom Wise
If you judge, investigate.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Judge Philosophical Umpire
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

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

Death Punishment Suicidal
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Educational Schoolroom Taught

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