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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

Seneca the Younger

After death there is nothing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

After Death Life Nothing
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
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
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Wise
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admire Guide Speak
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fear Thing Think
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
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
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admire Praise Provoking
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Grace Judge Pain

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