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A thousand approaches lie open to death.

Seneca the Younger

Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Care Dumb Light
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heart Think View
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Shortness Waste
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Health Inside Love People
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Equality Vice Virtue
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
The part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspiration Life Part Short Success
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Educational Schoolroom Taught
While crime is punished it yet increases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Increase Prison
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Know Modesty Return
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Medicine Men Search Sick
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
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Letter Together
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Applaude Causes Proof

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