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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca the Younger

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cures Fail Reason
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Charity Disclose Office
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Remember Tolerance
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Idea Men Work Write
No crime has been without a precedent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Precedent Prison
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Destiny Fate Inspirational
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bear Matter Things
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Care Dumb Light
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Half More Trouble
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
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
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heard Side Well
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Allay Counsel Grief Light

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

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