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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.

Seneca the Younger

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Letter Together
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ambition Limit Progress
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Believe Birthday Happiness
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Remember Tolerance
As long as you live, learn how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Live Long
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Wisdom Wise
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
No crime has been without a precedent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Precedent Prison
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessing Death Mean
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 point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Atheist Religious Wise
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Teacher Vices
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heart Think View
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Knowledge Learning Love
The part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspiration Life Part Short Success
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Care Dumb Light
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Stores Use
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dominion Eternal Unjust
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law People Retirement
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Past Time
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Accept Condonement Genius Measure

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