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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Seneca the Younger

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

Desire Men Nature Return
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Education Men Teacher
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Insane Insanity Men
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Death Philosophical
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Steer Talk Vessel
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Approach Lying Thousand
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
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
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
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fear Thing Think
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ashame Master Servitude
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Speech View
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Active Employment Vice
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Birthday End Eternity Fear

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

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