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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

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Men Wise
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Favor Silent Speak
Successful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Successful Villany Virtue
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Long Thing Well
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Poison Sweet
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

God Heard Life Men
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Outcome War
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Light might People
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Stores Use
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Laughter
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ignorant Life Soul
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Know Modesty Return
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Leisure Vice

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

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