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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

It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dignity Easier Grow Start
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Believe Birthday Happiness
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
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Christian Emotion Give Men
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

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

Life Son Success
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Give Judgement
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feel Philosophical Real
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dawn Expectation Night
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Modesty Repeat Time
One hand washes the other.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hatred Men Revenge
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fate Guides Inspirational
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conscience Foundation Joy True
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Accept Condonement Genius Measure
He who is brave is free.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bravery Freedom Reality
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
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Inspirational Other Positive
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Men Wise
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deed Punishment Wickedness
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion History People Person
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Betray Faces Guilt
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Remember Suffer Sweet
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

First Give Prudence Science
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
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Men Simplicity
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cultivation Culture May Mind

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