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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.

Seneca the Younger

One hand washes the other.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Emotion Matter More Person
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desirable People Poor

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