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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

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Life Suicidal
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
Time discovers truth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Discover Life Time Truth
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greed Luxury Madness Peace
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hateful
A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Money Philosophical Slavery
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dominion Eternal Unjust
Revenge is an inhuman word.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inhuman Revenge World
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Kind Misery Spiteful
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Education Men Teacher
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dream People Vice
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Congratulations Success Think
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heaven Soul Taken

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.

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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.

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