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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.

Seneca the Younger

Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Care Dumb Light
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Made Own Progress
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Delight Help Others Support
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Men Powerful
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Length Quiet Weary
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
To the stars through difficulties.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Difficulty Live Stars
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Successful Temerity Virtue
After death there is nothing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

After Death Life Nothing
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Teacher Vices
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Believe Birthday Happiness
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Piece
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
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
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deed Punishment Wickedness

Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.

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