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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca the Younger

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Give Inspirational Men
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
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Men Unhappy
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Stores Use
The part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Part Really Short
If you judge, investigate.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Judge Philosophical Umpire
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Liberal Philosophical Trust
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Half More Trouble
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Life Suicidal
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law People Retirement
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Remember Suffer Sweet
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
As long as you live, learn how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Live Long
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cultivation Culture May Mind
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Darkness Mind Prosperity
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Distress Fellow Man

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