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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

It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Equality Vice Virtue
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Know Modesty Return
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
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hatred
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feel Philosophical Real
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.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
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Successful Temerity Virtue
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help May Need
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Doubt Hope Wise

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.

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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.

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