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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”

Seneca the Younger

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

Death Punishment Suicidal
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Infidelity Men Wife
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cultivation Culture May Mind
Life without literary studies is death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Life Literature Study
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ad Death Journey Life
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Evil Real Suffering
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Number Slavery
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
He who has great power should use it lightly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Philosophical Vision
One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Philosophical Prison
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Director Teacher Vice
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deed Punishment Wickedness
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 Prompt
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beneficial Delightful Read
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”

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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”

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