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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.

Seneca the Younger

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Giving Hour Life
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Distance Inspire Life
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Book Mind Together
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Educational Schoolroom Taught
Every journey has an end.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

End Goal Journey
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Pain Release
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Give Inspirational Men
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Epileptic Precaution Regard
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Friendship Necessarily
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Happiness Life
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Medicine Men Search Sick
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
Injustice never rules forever.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Forever Injustice Justice
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conclusion Justice May Side
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Appreciation Gratitude Struggle

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