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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Seneca the Younger

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessed Blessing Confidence
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Health Inside Love People
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dominion Eternal Unjust
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion History People Person
If you judge, investigate.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

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

Life Long Thing Well
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cures Fail Reason
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Successful Temerity Virtue
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Element Madness Talent
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help May Need
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deceive Give Men Return Think
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Modesty Repeat Time
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Action Destination Honor
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

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