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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.

Seneca the Younger

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Long Thing Well
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

End Inspirational Way
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
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
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
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deed Punishment Wickedness
No crime has been without a precedent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Precedent Prison
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bles Life Live Well
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Love Military Soldier
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Matter Think Unblest
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Infidelity Men Wife
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cures Fail Reason
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Forward Life Look Past
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cause Loss Negligence
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heart Think View

As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.

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