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Be harsh with yourself at times.

Seneca the Younger

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

Death Forward Life Look Past
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
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
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
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
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
The expression of truth is simplicity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Expression Inspirational Simplicity
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cause Loss Negligence
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent

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