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The part of life which we really live is short.

Seneca the Younger

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Made Own Progress
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hatred
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law People Retirement
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Drunkenness People Vices
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learner Library Wander
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Betray Faces Guilt
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Advice Body Disease
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Successful Temerity Virtue
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Perseverance Sowing
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Blow Thinking
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Men Powerful
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Education Men Teacher
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Pain Release
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessed Blessing Confidence
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greed Luxury Madness Peace
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Health Inside Love People
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Medicine Men Search Sick
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fate Men Wish
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Love Military Soldier
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dignity Easier Grow Start
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Life People
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

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