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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

Seneca the Younger

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Laughter
All art is but imitation of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Art Garden Philosophical
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Outcome War
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Poison Sweet
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Delight Help Others Support
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Life Wise
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Number Slavery
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessing Death Mean
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Made Own Progress
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Continue Dream Indulge Men
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Quality Quantity Wise
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Accept Condonement Genius Measure
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Joy True Vex
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
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Believe Birthday Happiness

Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

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