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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Seneca the Younger

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ambition Know Mind
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
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Numbers Peril Slavery
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Destiny Drag Guides
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cause Loss Negligence
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Death Philosophical
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Number Slavery
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
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Favor Silent Speak
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cures Fail Reason
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beneficial Delightful Read
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Pain Release

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