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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Seneca the Younger

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Equality Vice Virtue
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Christian Emotion Give Men
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Teacher Vices
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Thrown Ungrateful
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

First Give Prudence Science
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
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Demand Equal Wicked
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Insane Insanity Men
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Destiny Fate Inspirational
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Applaude Causes Proof
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Secret Tedious Truth
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

God Heard Life Men

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

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