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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

Revenge is an inhuman word.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inhuman Revenge World
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Medicine Men Search Sick
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Relaxation Stronger
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
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

End Eternity Fear
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Master Slave Tyranny
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
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
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.
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Affection Coal Squares
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Justice May Philosophical

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.

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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.

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