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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

Seneca the Younger

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beginnings Life New Spring
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Grace Judge Pain
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cause Loss Negligence
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Judge Persuade Sin
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Allay Counsel Grief Light
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blame Giving Judgement Speak
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Way Wisdom
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Teacher Vices
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Medicine Men Search Sick
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Burn Grief Secret
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Education Men Teacher
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heart Think View
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Distance Inspire Life

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