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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

Seneca the Younger

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

Courage Hero Life
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
Every journey has an end.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

End Goal Journey
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Piece
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Approach Lying Thousand
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
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Merit Test
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Error First Step
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Kind Misery Spiteful
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
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
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
He who is brave is free.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bravery Freedom Reality
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deed Punishment Wickedness

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