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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.

Seneca the Younger

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Number Slavery
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Life Wisdom
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Speech View
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Element Madness Talent
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hand Men Wise
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beginnings Life New Spring
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Choices Little Struggle
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Congratulations Success Think
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Joy True Vex
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
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Giving Hour Life
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Kind Misery Spiteful

That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.

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