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Seneca the Younger

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

Distress Fellow Man
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
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
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
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
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Medicine Men Search Sick

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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