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The worse a person is the less he feels it.

Seneca the Younger

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ancestry Brag Descent
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
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Men Philosophical
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

God Heard Life Men
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Delight Help Others Support
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feel Philosophical Real
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Continue Dream Indulge Men
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Greater Progress
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Wisdom Wise
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Chance Hatred Wrath
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desirable People Poor
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Charity Disclose Office
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Love Military Soldier
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Book Mind Together
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
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Remember Suffer Sweet

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