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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

Seneca the Younger

People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hatred Men Revenge
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Avarice Need Poverty
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Men Nature Return
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Assuming Honor Men
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Allay Counsel Grief Light
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Men Mind
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fear Heaven
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Element Madness Talent
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
Men learn while they teach.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Education Inspirational Teacher
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Demand Equal Wicked
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hear More Nobody Repeat
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Outcome War
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Life Wisdom

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