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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.

Seneca the Younger

Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Merit Test
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Modesty Repeat Time
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Epileptic Precaution Regard
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
SENECA THE YOUNGER

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

Death Pain Release
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
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Love Rule
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ignorant Life Soul
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Life Money
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Speech View
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy Themselves
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admire Praise Provoking
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Half More Trouble
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Made Own Progress
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessing Death Mean
A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Money Philosophical Slavery

Nobody becomes guilty by fate.

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