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

Seneca the Younger

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hatred Men Revenge
As long as you live, learn how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Live Long
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Compact Made Poverty Rich
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excellence Philosophical Quality
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

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

Emotion Goes Hold Love True
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
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

End Eternity Fear
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Educational Schoolroom Taught
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Numbers Peril Slavery
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Delight Help Others Support
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Employment Indolence Stagnation
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Prudence Punish
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hear More Nobody Repeat
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

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