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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Seneca the Younger

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Christian Emotion Give Men
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Wisdom Wise
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Darkness Mind Prosperity
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Burn Grief Secret
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cures Fail Reason
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Insane Insanity Men
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Advice Body Disease
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Lying Money Political
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Error First Step
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feel Philosophical Real
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Able Mind Peace Terror
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
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
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ad Death Journey Life
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Education Men Teacher

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