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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

Seneca the Younger

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

Emotion Goes Hold Love True
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Dying Wonder
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bear Mind Money Wealth
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excess Pleasure Repetition
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Independence Step Treatment
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heaven Soul Taken
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Forward Life Look Past
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
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Demand Equal Wicked
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Outcome War
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conquer Kindness Recognise
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Darkness Mind Prosperity
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Escape Necessity Overcoming

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