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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

Seneca the Younger

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
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Color Life Mastery Wisdom
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Leisure Praying
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Management Planning
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excess Pleasure Repetition
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Delight Help Others Support
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessed Blessing Confidence
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Blow Thinking
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Emotion Matter More Person
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Our Please Word
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Dying Wonder
If you judge, investigate.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Judge Philosophical Umpire
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hateful
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Charity Disclose Office

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

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