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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.

Seneca the Younger

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
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
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ashame Master Servitude
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Men Wind
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Education Men Teacher
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Quality Quantity Wise
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cures Fail Reason
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Teacher Vices
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Way Wisdom
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heard Side Well
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Master Slave Tyranny
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Speech View
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anything Delight Help Other
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Give Inspirational Men
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ignorant Life Soul

Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.

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