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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

Seneca the Younger

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Brave Joy Laughing True
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Thrown Ungrateful
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Our Please Word
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Independence Step Treatment
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
Every journey has an end.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

End Goal Journey
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
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Remember Suffer Sweet
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Management Planning
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anything Delight Help Other

Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

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