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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.

Seneca the Younger

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Joy Men
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
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
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heart Think View
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Emotion Goes Hold Love True
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admire Praise Provoking
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conquer Kindness Recognise
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fate Guilt Guilty
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dominion Eternal Unjust
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Kindness Life
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Able Mind Peace Terror
Successful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Successful Villany Virtue
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fear Heaven
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Allay Counsel Grief Light
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
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Steer Talk Vessel

A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.

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