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

Seneca the Younger

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

Medicine Men Search Sick
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Infidelity Men Wife
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.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Son Success
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
The expression of truth is simplicity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Expression Inspirational Simplicity
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ambition Know Mind
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
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.
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Learner Library Wander
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Justice May Philosophical
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Men Powerful

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

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