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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

Seneca the Younger

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Birthday Done
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
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Disappointment Office Years
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Justice May Philosophical
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Brave Men
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conquer Kindness Recognise
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

First Give Prudence Science
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Distress Fellow Man
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Door Find Men Open
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Life People
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dread Fear Much Unfit
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Counsel Grief Light People
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophy Plato Science
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

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

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