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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

The part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspiration Life Part Short Success
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Medicine Men Search Sick
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Speech View

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.

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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.

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