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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

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Arrange Given Law Way
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Advice Body Disease
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Light might People
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Modesty Repeat Time
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
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 can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Success Wisdom
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Generation Humanity Passion
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Lying Money Political
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Atheist Religious Wise
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Greater Progress
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

End Eternity Fear

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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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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