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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

Seneca the Younger

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
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.
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Ambition Know Mind
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
He who is brave is free.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bravery Freedom Reality
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Liberal Philosophical Trust
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Book Mind Together
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Wisdom Wise
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Failure Happiness
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Men Wise
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
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
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Fidelity Prosperity

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

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