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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

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

Demand Equal Wicked
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Invites Refusal Request
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Men Mind
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

Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Disappointment Office Years
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Add Another Day Time
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
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beginnings Life New Spring
If you judge, investigate.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Judge Philosophical Umpire
As long as you live, learn how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Live Long
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Infidelity Men Wife
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Drunkenness People Vices
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Pain Release
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Life People
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature

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