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

Seneca the Younger

Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Men Mind
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Luck Opportunity Preparation
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Good Innocence Law
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
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learner Library Wander
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fault Impetuosity Youth
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Secret Tedious Truth
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
One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Philosophical Prison
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Known Lying Well
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
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Advice Body Disease

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