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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.

Seneca the Younger

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

Freedom Wisdom Wise
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

Down Hand Let Pit
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Numbers Peril Slavery
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
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hateful
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Teacher Vices
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Men Powerful
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
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Successful Temerity Virtue
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Error First Step
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Birthday Done
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Charity Disclose Office
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Brave Joy Laughing True
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Letter Together

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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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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