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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

Seneca the Younger

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
Life without literary studies is death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Life Literature Study
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Remember Tolerance
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Letter Together
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Men Wise
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Love Military Soldier
Whatever begins, also ends.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Begin Close End Time
Life is long if you know how to use it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Long Use
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Long Thing Well
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Failure Happiness
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excellence Philosophical Quality
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Compact Made Poverty Rich

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

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