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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

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Idea Men Work Write
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
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
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Birthday End Eternity Fear
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
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.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
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.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deceit Dishonorable Think Write

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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