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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Seneca the Younger

One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Dying Wonder
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Remember Suffer Sweet
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessed Blessing Confidence
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
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Attack Blow Revenge Wise
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Intelligence Mediocrity
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Master Slave Tyranny
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admirer Praise Provoke
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law People Retirement
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

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

Death Punishment Suicidal
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
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Counsel Grief Light People
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fear Thing Think
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Pain Release

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

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