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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

Seneca the Younger

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Choices Little Struggle
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Stores Use
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Remember Suffer Sweet
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

Down Hand Let Pit
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
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
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Joy True Vex
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
Whatever begins, also ends.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Begin Close End Time
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

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

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