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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

Seneca the Younger

In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Motivational
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Wisdom Wise
A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Money Philosophical Slavery
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ambition Limit Progress
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Drink Insanity
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Able Mind Peace Terror
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Down Hand Let Pit
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
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Color Life Mastery Wisdom
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Awareness Feels Safety Self

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