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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

Seneca the Younger

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Counsel Grief Light People
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Success Tattoo
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Honor Justice Loss
The sun shines even on the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Evil Shine Wicked
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learner Library Wander
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Giver Mind
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion People Person World
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Secret Tedious Truth
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophy Plato Science
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Happiness Life
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Avarice Need Poverty
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Quality Quantity Wise
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Employment Indolence Stagnation
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Men Unhappy

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