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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.

Seneca the Younger

If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Doubt Hope Wise
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
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
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Intelligence Mediocrity
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Awareness Feels Safety Self
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Relaxation Stronger
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion People Person World
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Men Mind
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Men Philosophical
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Example Luxury Mischief People
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hatred Men Revenge
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Brave Men
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Director Teacher Vice
No crime has been without a precedent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Precedent Prison
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

First Give Prudence Science

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