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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.

Seneca the Younger

It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Equality Vice Virtue
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Men Wind
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Knowledge Learning Love
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.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
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hear More Nobody Repeat
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Escape Necessity Overcoming
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
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
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Letter Together
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
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Wisdom Wise
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Remember Tolerance
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deed Punishment Wickedness
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Innocence Men Mind

He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.

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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.

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