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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

Seneca the Younger

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
Life without literary studies is death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Life Literature Study
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Half More Trouble
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Action Destination Honor
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cultivation Culture May Mind
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Awareness Feels Safety Self
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Lying Money Political
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Life Suicidal

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