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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

Seneca the Younger

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Wisdom Wise
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Men Unhappy
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Awareness Feels Safety Self
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Give Inspirational Men
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Land Travel World
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Honor Justice Loss
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophy Plato Science
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Motivational Positive
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Lying Money Political
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
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fault Impetuosity Youth
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

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

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