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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

Seneca the Younger

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dresses Fear Number
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Advice Body Disease
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Knowledge Learning Love
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
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

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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