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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

Seneca the Younger

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Favor Silent Speak
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Insane Insanity Men
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beginnings Life New Spring
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
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fear Thing Think
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

Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Known Lying Well
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
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cures Fail Reason
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

Color Life Mastery Wisdom
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Success Tattoo
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blame Giving Judgement Speak
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Medicine Men Search Sick
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
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Burn Grief Secret

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

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