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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

Seneca the Younger

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bear Mind Money Wealth
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admire Guide Speak
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Add Another Day Time
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Advice Body Disease
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bear Matter Things
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cultivation Culture May Mind
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fate Guides Inspirational
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ancestry Brag Descent
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Life Suicidal
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Lying Money Political
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fate Men Wish
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Giver Mind
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Motto Nature Stoic
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Drunkenness People Vices
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion People Person World

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