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Seneca the Younger

He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Causes Grieve Sorrow
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Choice Dressing Practice Window
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Remember Suffer Sweet
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Liberal Philosophical Trust
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Humble Men Poverty
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hatred
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Our Please Word
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
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Give Inspirational Men
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Success Wisdom
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Grace Judge Pain
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Secret Tedious Truth
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Education Men Teacher

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