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Revenge is an inhuman word.

Seneca the Younger

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
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Give Inspirational Men
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Choice Dressing Practice Window
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
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conclusion Justice May Side
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Death Philosophical
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Add Another Day Time
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
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Land Law People Person
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Depress Mind Quality
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Men Philosophical
Where fear is, happiness is not.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Accept Condonement Genius Measure

Revenge is an inhuman word.

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