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

Seneca the Younger

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Assuming Honor Men
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conclusion Justice May Side
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fate Men Wish
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Failure Happiness
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bear Matter Things
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Land Travel World
Injustice never rules forever.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Forever Injustice Justice
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Numbers Peril Slavery
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
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
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heal Inspirational Reason

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